Leslie Franke

I have added a print stylesheet this site. This should give you much better results when printing. Generally speaking, the only things that will now print are a heading that says “Leslie Franke” and the main white content area No ads, footer, header or sidebars will be printed.

The Firefox X-Ray extension allows you to see the code of the page you are viewing by showing the html elements on the actual page itself. A quick way to see how the document was constructed without having to switch between the sourcecode and the rendered page.

Pulled up Yahoo in Firefox today and got a suprise. A small box appeared that asked me if I wanted to switch from Google search to Yahoo! search with instructions on how to make the switch. Yahoo is not the default search engine for Firefox browser so this is a neat trick for them. It can only be a sign of things to come (Amazon, eBay, MSN etc.). Surely this goes along with reports that Google is trying to set themselves up as the search engine in IE7.

The Rapid Web Development and Testing with Firefox presentation has been updated to account for the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and the release of several new extensions. Several changes have been made to the presentation. They include:

• Added several new extensions: Extended Status Bar, IE Tab, Meta Tags Sidebar, Pearl Crescent Page Saver, URL Params.
• Removed several extensions: View Formatted Source (not compatible with Firefox 1.5), View Rendered Source (latest version is no longer free).
• Changed page headings to reflect the category of the extensions on the page, not the name of any one extension on the page.

Chris Pederick has just released an update to his essential Web Developer Extension 1.0 for Firefox and Mozilla. Many new features have been added to the extension so upgrading is highly recommended. Some of these new features include: Edit HTML, Enable Form Fields, Outline Positioned Elements,Show Hidden Elements, Small Screen Rendering, View Color Information, View Document Outline and Source and View Generated Source.

I have uploaded a news Palm Icon Manager icon set for use with applications such as Datebk and Agendus. They are called Minicons and are a 16×16 symbol based icon set. Download them from here.

Looking for a free winter ZLauncher theme. I have uploaded a Christmas theme, to my download section, from LCD Gear. Though Christmas based, the backgrounds can be changed to fit any look or season. You can get the new theme from here.